I will give that a try. I've reinstalled and unistalled everything in all different types of order. The last thing I did was uninstall everything, reboot the computer, then install Hal, then install the neospeech voices. Still did not work. I also tried to open the Haptek SAPI config dialog which didn't help either. The only way I can get it to work is to switch to Microsoft Anna which is a SAPI voice, then switch back to VW Paul. That will only fix it for that session, once I exit the program and go back in i'm back at the beginning. Otherwise these voices work for me just fine in my other programs.